Example sentences for: naively

How can you use “naively” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Then she naively sent a rambling op-ed piece to the San Francisco Chronicle , outlining--in general terms, naming no names--the sexist atmosphere at Stanford.

  • Chatterbox naively assumed that if Altman didn't make his tabloids more pro-Clinton, he would be frozen out by the Clintons, and that if he didn't make his tabloids more respectable, he would be frozen out by respectable society.

  • Writing last Sunday in the New York Times Magazine , New York University politics professor Mark Lilla claims to have discovered why the Sixties still incite debate in America (under the guise of the culture wars) whereas such matters have long since been resolved in Europe: Americans naively make a religion out of democracy.

  • Despite his emphasis on how bad things are, West is hopeful--as opposed to naively optimistic--about America's racial future.

  • When Courtney Love denied Broomfield the rights to Cobain's music and tried to get his movie quashed, she may not have been acting as the poster-girl for the ACLU that the organization perhaps naively tried to turn her into, but she was exercising her constitutionally-guaranteed right to protect her reputation against the worst form of libel there is.


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